Coach set (1) with four express coaches for the EC 25 ‘Franz Liszt’ of the Deutsche Bahn.

The set contains a 1st class compartment coach, type Avmz 111.5, a 2nd class compartment coach, type Bvmz 185.3, a 2nd class compartment coach, type Bvmz 185.5, and a 2nd class open seating coach, type Bpmz 291.3.

■ Route: Cologne Central Station–Frankfurt (M)–Nuremberg–Linz–Vienna West Station–Budapest-Keleti Station
■ A Bvmz coach with a pressure-tight gangway connection
■ All coaches without route indicator boxes

The first Eurocity to cross the former ‘Iron Curtain’ was the EC ‘Lehar’ from Vienna to Budapest, which began operating in 1988. As early as May 1989, the EC “Franz Liszt” followed on this route, running from Cologne via Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Linz and Vienna to Hungary. In the years that followed, more and more new air-conditioned coaches of the Hungarian State Railways (MAV) were added to the train. From May 1999, DB once again provided the rolling stock. This also saw the deployment of the Bpmbdzf 297-type IC control cab coach, which had been delivered from 1997 onwards. Consequently, west of Vienna, the Class 103 was replaced by the Class 101. On the eastern section, the train was regularly hauled by an ÖBB Class 1014 locomotive.
As the modernisation of 20 DB dining coaches in Italy was delayed, the WRmh 132 coaches then in service were still in use. From 1996, the coaches received a fresh new livery, as DB AG replaced the ‘product colours’ of the Bundesbahn – which were only 10 years old – and pushed ahead with the colour change at great speed. DB long-distance coaches were given a light grey livery with a traffic-red window band instead of the rapidly fading Orient red, whilst the commuter locomotives and coaches were uniformly painted in traffic red.